General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. Japanese SURRENDER CEREMONIES ABOARD USS MISSOURI

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General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. Japanese SURRENDER CEREMONIES ABOARD USS MISSOURI

1945

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1) LS Officer salute aboard USS MISSOURI.2) LS Officers & spectaters topside USS MISSOURI.3) LS MS Gen. MacArthur and Gen. Halsey & Adm. Nimitz walk across deck.4) LS Japanese emissaries walk across deck & are directed to their positions for the ceremeny.5) CU Gen.MacArthur speaks into microphone, view from rear.6) CU Japanese emissaries sign document.7) MS-CU Russian, Chinese & other officers approach to sign document-SV.8) LS From bow of USS MISSOURI showing spectators, destroyer along port side.9) LS-MS-DA British officers arrive & climb gangway to quarter-deck from small motor launch as DD pulls along on port side.10) LS From bow of USS MISSOURI, sailors stand at quarters.11) From bow, Japanese delegation climb ladder to quarter deck.12) MS-Pan-DA Spectators on superstructure of USS MISSOURI to ceremony on deck.QUALITY: GOOD TO FAIR, SOME OUT-OF-FOCUS LEFT SIDE OF FRAME & SOME LENS FLARE ON TELEPHOTO

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